Environmental Cost Management, Inc.

Environmental Cost Management, Inc., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business based in Costa Mesa, California, provides environmental site assessments, hazardous materials management, contamination remediation, and environmental compliance services primarily as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards) on federal environmental response and remediation projects. The firm competes across both set-aside (total small business) and full-and-open categories, with set-asides characterizing roughly half of its prime footprint, particularly in Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management delivery orders.

ECM's customer concentration is heavily weighted to western federal land management agencies. The top five customers by award count account for 57% of awards, with the Department of Agriculture Forest Service dominating both volume and dollars: Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) holds 40 awards worth $79.2 million combined potential value, and Forest Service Region 3 (Southwestern) holds 39 awards worth $35.5 million. The Bureau of Land Management Nevada, Arizona, and California regions round out the top five. However, the top-five customers by potential value diverge sharply from volume rankings — the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command anchors $4 billion in potential value through a single $4 billion Seaport-NxG indefinite delivery contract awarded January 2, 2025, which carries only a $500 minimum guarantee task order to date. Naval Facilities Engineering Command accounts for an additional $83.6 million across 17 awards. This split signals a large Navy vehicle in place but early-stage execution; the Forest Service and Interior Bureau of Land Management represent more mature, operationalized revenue.

ECM's portfolio spans multiple parent vehicles: 119 task orders under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) generate $56.3 million combined potential value; 52 task orders flow through the National Environmental Support Services vehicle; 24 through the Professional Services Schedule; and Forest Service region-specific CERCLA and non-CERCLA indefinite delivery contracts anchor dozens more. The vendor holds a $17.325 million CERCLA Environmental Response single-award IDIQ with Forest Service Region 5 (through October 31, 2028), a $29.675 million non-CERCLA environmental site investigation and cleanup contract with Forest Service Regions 5 and 3 for disaster response (through April 30, 2028), and a $15 million CERCLA Environmental Services IDIQ with Forest Service Region 3 (through June 4, 2028). ECM also secured a $2 million GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (May 13, 2025, through May 12, 2030) covering environmental consulting and remediation services across all 50 states and territories, and an OASIS+ Total Small Business Set-Aside award with a $999,999,999,999 placeholder ceiling (December 19, 2024, through December 18, 2029) — a multi-agency vehicle spanning seven functional domains including environmental services.

Representative prime work includes a $674,563 delivery order from Department of the Interior Region 3 for Gallinas Mountains mines remediation (awarded January 9, 2026, completion January 14, 2027); a $499,831 Forest Service Region 5 post-fire hazardous materials removal contract in Castaic, California (awarded September 30, 2024); a $481,115 Bureau of Land Management Caselton remedial investigation and feasibility study under the MAS (awarded April 18, 2024); and numerous smaller Forest Service and BLM site investigation, preliminary assessment and site inspection, engineering evaluation and cost analysis, and monitoring contracts in the $30,000 to $300,000 range across western states. Work is performed under CERCLA and RCRA frameworks on federal lands, with PSC concentration in "Other Environmental Services" (103 awards) and NAICS concentration in Environmental Consulting Services (127 awards) and Remediation Services (95 awards). The firm maintains a GSA Schedule labor portfolio spanning 25 categories from $66.44 per hour (Field Technician, high school education, no clearance) to $226.50 per hour (Principal Consultant/Vice President, bachelor's degree, 15 years experience, no clearance required), reflecting mid-tier environmental consulting and hands-on remediation staffing.

In its subcontractor role, ECM provides environmental consulting and UXO (unexploded ordnance) technical services to Bering Sea Eccotech and AECOM Technical Services on Navy and Department of the Interior work, including operational range clearance at MCAS Yuma and MCAGCC 29 Palms (multiple awards 2023–2025), wake island UXO construction support for fiber optic cable installation (March 24, 2025), and CERCLA investigative and analytical services at Yosemite and Kings Canyon National Parks (October 2023 and October 2024). Sub awards are sparse relative to prime volume, suggesting ECM competes and executes primarily as a direct contractor to federal agencies rather than as a sub to larger integrators.

Activity declined from 22 awards in 2023 to 13 in 2025, with only 5 awards recorded in the first quarter of 2026; the recompete cliff over the next twenty-four months carries $2.4 million in combined potential value, representing modest near-term contract expiration risk. ECM's federal footprint is anchored to environmental remediation and site assessment work on western federal lands, with emerging Navy exposure through Seaport-NxG that remains nascent relative to its $4 billion ceiling.

ECM provides strategies for and implementation of environmental site closures; investigations; 3D data visualizations & modeling; soil, groundwater & waste remediation; risk assessment; monitored natural attenuation; regulatory negotiations; and design.